The woman's badly decomposed body was found last year near Modjeska Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains

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Jurors on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, reached a verdict in the case over the death of Maribel Manriquez Ramos, a 36-year-old Cal State Fullerton student and Army vet.

Jurors on Tuesday convicted a Southern California man of second-degree murder in the slaying of his former roommate, an Army veteran and Cal State Fullerton student with whom prosecutors said he was desperately in love.

Kwang Choi "KC" Joy, 55, was found guilty in the death of 36-year-old Maribel Ramos, whose body was found badly decomposed near Modjeska Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains last year.

Earlier in the trial, Simmons showed video of Joy walking into a public library. His search history there showed that he looked up how long it takes for a human body to decay, and the location where Ramos' body was later found, prosecutors said.